In defense of weeds.

The word “weed” is like any  label we use when we throw a lot of different things into one big pile, toss a tarp over it and say, “We don’t need any of that.”

We call people we don’t like lowlifes, deadbeats, trash; places we don’t like slums.  And we call plants we don’t like weeds.  There is no biology to back up the term, just a judgment call.